Intellectual Fraud: Part Two
Restructuring: Fashola fears `Brexit experience’ for Nigeria!
Speaking on “Restructuring: Lessons from Brexit,” Fashola gave a detailed history of the evolution of the United Kingdom, which he said, was similar to Nigeria’s 1914 amalgamation that merged the Northern and Southern Protectorates. He explained that the insatiable quest for a better life was the root of the clamour for restructuring in Nigeria, noting that measures to create new identities had compounded problems throughout human history. The senior lawyer warned proponents of restructuring in Nigeria to make their definitions clear and to also educate youths on the implications of their choices to avoid retrogression in Nigeria. Fashola noted that there had been confusion in the restructuring agitation with people clamouring variously for confederation, secession, constitutional amendment and state police, among others, adding that restructuring in whatever guise must be made clear to youths. “Let us decompose that word and let everybody be specific. There is so much confusion. Don’t hide restructuring under one word. Bring it out, so that we know what to choose."
My Comment.
Today, President Buhari of the same party (APC) with Fashola is in power. And miraculously, Fashola has forgotten the meaning and essence of the demands for True Federalism and Restructuring. It is now about an "insatiable quest for a better life" and how "measures to create new identities had compounded problems through human history." And "there is so much confusion." So, "let us decompose that word [Restructuring] and let everybody be specific."
Decomposing that word was exactly what Mr. Fashola did at John Hopkins University in the US in 2013. In his own words, "The 36 state governors are demanding a truer federal system in terms of fiscal and political federalism. I associate myself with this demand in its entirety.” “The realization of these demands on their own may not necessarily leapfrog us into El Dorado, but without them, the journey will be tortuous. If they materialize, they liberate the possibilities that lie inherent in the diverse capacities that the Nigerian states and local governments are blessed with”. That was Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) in 2013. What a difference a Federal Ministerial post makes!
And that's the way it is in Nigerian leadership. The principled ones are long gone. His present convoluted views on True Federalism and Restructuring is consistent with the language of doubt raised by Northern Elders on the same subject in December 2017 - they don't understand what Restructuring connotes.
One would have thought that a Lawyer, a Senior Advocate, a Commissioner for eight years, a Governor for eight years, and now a Federal Minister for five years has garnered more riches to remain truthful to his conscience. No, he has his mind fixated on 2023 already and he doesn't want to say anything on the record that would adversely impact his standing with the caliphate. Moronic. Even the caliphate wants to change from the old to the new.
Minister Babatunde Fashola, this is a fraud you are perpetuating on fellow Nigerian intelligentsia. I praised you glowingly in 2013 on my Blog after your 2013 speech at John Hopkins University in the US, espousing the wisdom of True Federalism and Decentralization of Power at Abuja. Today, you are having some problems with the terms, Restructuring, and Decentralization of Power. You are the ignorant one right now on the issue, not the Nigerian youths. Peace.
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